Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Photography Trip January 5-12

Fund
for Reconciliation and Development

145 Palisade Street,
Suite 401, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

914-231-6270
www.cubapeople2people.org

Photo
Workshop with Rich Pomerantz

January
5th
– 12th
2013

*This
itinerary is intended as a guideline, and subject to some change.
Certain visits may have to be substituted or rescheduled as necessary
Visits to home studios and galleries will depend on the availability
of the individual artists we plan to visit since many of them
frequently travel outside of Cuba

Saturday
January 5th

6:00
a.m. Check in at Miami international airport Concourse J

10:00
a.m. Depart Miami for Havana via Marazul Charters Flight DL8876

11:00
a.m. Arrive in Havana and check into Hotel Ambos Mundos; lunch on
your own

3:00
p.m. Walking tour through Old
Havana especially Plaza Vieja talking with artists and vendors in the
Diago Gallery and in the galleries on Obispo Street about how
galleries and the art market function in Cuba today.

7:00
p.m. Lobster dinner at El Templete (included)

Sunday
January 6th

8:00
a.m. Breakfast at hotel (included)

10:00
a.m. Visit artist José Fuster in the neighborhood of Jaimanitas; his
three-story home studio is surrounded by painting and ceramic
sculpture, and he has now expanded his home art project to the entire
Jaimanitas neighborhood. Meet with Fuster, his family, and local
workers who help him on his community building projects.

10:00
a.m. Trip to the Plaza Vieja, including the Centro Provincial de
Artes Visuales and the Fototeca; meet with photographers Ludmilla
Velasco, Nelson Ramirez, and others, at the Fototeca to talk about
contemporary photography and how it differs from that of the early
60s and 70s.

1:00
p.m. Lunch on your own

3:00
p.m. Tour of modern areas of Havana including Colón Cemetery, and
Plaza de la Revolución, 5th
Avenue in Miramar, and the Hemmingway Mariana

6:00
p.m. Visit to the historic Hotel Nacional; dinner on your own

Tuesday
January 8th

8:00
a.m. Breakfast at hotel (included)

9:00
a.m. Depart for Las Terrazas which is a UNESCO –designated
Biosphere Reserve where research is done on ecology and the
environment. Meet with researchers about their work and with
residents of this “new town” created in the 1960s about what led
to the creation of the project, and the reforestation of the whole
area

12:00
p.m. Lunch at Casa de Campesino (included)

2:00
p.m. Visit to the restored ruins of Buena Vista coffee plantation
founded by French immigrants.

10:00
a.m. Visit the Indian Cave with a walk along the corridor shaped by
ancient rock formations and take a boat ride along the San Vicente
River on the stretch following inside the cave

12:00
p.m. Lunch on your own in the city center of Viñales, followed by
time to mingle with town residents at the local market

3:00
p.m. Return to Havana via Pinar Del Rio

4:00
p.m. In the city of Pinar Del Rio, visit the Center for Cuban Studies
humanitarian project with Down syndrome children in the printmaking
workshop run by local artist Jesus Carrete.

7:00
p.m. Arrive in Havana and check into hotel; dinner on your own.

Thursday
January 10th

8:00
a.m. Breakfast at hotel (included)

10:00
a.m. Drive to the home/studio of one of Cuba’s best known artists,
Manuel Mendive, in the community of San José de Las Lajas (included
lunch)

2:00
p.m. Return to Havana and take a guided tour of the Cuban collection
at the National Museum of Fine Arts

5:00
p.m. Meeting with older photographers who rose to fame in the 60s and
70s including José Figueroa, Roberto Salas, and Liborio Noval,
together with younger artists who use photography and video in their
conceptual work, like Mabel Poblet and Chile.

7:00
p.m. Return to hotel; dinner on your own

Friday
January 11th

8:00
a.m. Breakfast at hotel (included)

10:00
a.m. Individual selection of photos for printing and presentation to
the “Graphical memory of Cuba” contest in the following
categories: natural landscape and urban landscape

1:00
p.m. Lunch on your own at a local paladar

2:00
p.m. Visit to Ernest Hemingway’s home, and then visit the fishing
village of Cojimar that inspired Hemingway’s The
Old Man and the Sea